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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How important is it to verify a signature (of say Mullvad Browser)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because it's kind of hard! Even if I follow their instructions. Maybe I'm just dumb . . . 🙁

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If it is hard, it is usually unnecessary. Unless it is a critical software (like a firmware update), or you suspect that somebody manipilates your traffic (which is highly unlikely on https sites)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Not necessarily traffic. Often download sites use mirrors to serve you the download. Sometimes those links are provided via a CDN which can be forced to comply to LEA or some other static hosted mirrors which are often hosted by others. The second part is more likely on community managed software.

So either traffic or the server/CDN behind the link. Happened before.